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How to make it or break it in Milan

There were stripes, floaty prints, bold colours and touches of the Orient in Milan this week

Laura Craik and Carolyn Asome

September 26 2012, 1:01am, The Times

There’s no doubt that Jill Sander is still a master at expertly cut and desirable clothesCatwalking.com

Jil Sander

Sander, lest anyone forget, was one of the first women designers to inject a minimalist code to her clothes, an act that won her an enormous and loyal fashion following. Eight years later, those minimalist shapes are prevalent on every high street — and clearly for a lot less than her four-figure price-tag jackets. After a seven-year interval, during which Raf Simons took the helm, could she pick up where she left off? The show opened with a sleeveless coat dress in a russet brown worn over a pinafore and white sleeveless shirt. So far, so good. What followed was a succession of loose cotton and wool dresses with wide sleeves and waists that were subtly defined rather than cinched at the waist. Any…